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The Deepest Photo Ever Taken
Astroturtle writes "Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope's powerful new Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) have taken the deepest visible-light image ever made of the sky. The 3.5-day (84-hour) exposure captures stars as faint as 31st magnitude, according to Tom M. Brown (Space Telescope Science Institute), who headed the eight-person team that took the picture."
Ah, yes, my bad, that will teach me to read an article that fast. My apologies to all who had to see my stupid question.
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...and it is, hubble has some type of cryogenic cooler onboard. At least according to an article in Sky and Space magazine (it's an australian one AFAIK) a while back that talked about all the extra stuff that was put on hubble last time a shuttle stopped by to maintain it.
If you look at the image, there are some odd streaks that go from red to blue (or blue to red).
I'm just curious here, what are they? I thought maybe it could be a bit of space debris that whizzed in front of the camera, but with an exposure of 3.4 days, the streak would go from one side or another.
What moves that far in 3.4 days? A comet? A meteor? A star?
And that big bright cluster in the lower bottom, what's that? It looks pretty close galaxy-wise.
It's a neat pic for sure, a little blurry, which makes it less jawdropping than other hubble efforts but makes sense for a 3.4 day exposure.
Note - I didn't make any goatse or Uranus crack this whole post. You're welcome.
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I know there are countless galaxies out there...but they are so far away, I was extremely surprised at how many galaxies I could see in the big 4MB JPEG.
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The grandeur of such an image almost forces one to reasses their place in the world. To think that the area in the photograph is equivalent to the area covered by a grain of sand at arms length is mindnumbing. The universe is unbelieveably amazing.
How can you, having studied astronomy, having an understanding of the vastness of space, still participate in such worthless endeavors as racism? How can you consider that important, worthwhile, or right?
The post is relevant and unoffensive. You take offense to his username and profile. I don't like his opinions any more than you, perhaps, but I'm not wasting today's precious mod points on someone's lifestyle choice. What if his u/n was I'm a Queer?
Society doesn't turn on a dime, but if enough people lean on the steering wheel long enough, it can negotiate a curve.
Is this information needed now? If the space elevator is invented and there are plenty of people who think it will be invented, than what will the cost of finding this information? I think it would be a magnitude less and there would be less loss of human life too.